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Actually our last GM did (new name at the top surprised me) but he's had to withdraw from the boards completely (there are no new posts under his profile) and we still don't have a new GM yet. Any word yet, Lirotha?
♫Staying alive, Staying alive,
Yup we're pretty consistent in staying together and pushing forwards! I've loved that about our group to be honest.
Thank-you Lirotha! Seems my last post here got eaten by a board monster? Arugh it seems to be happening somewhat commonly here, but I could be forgetting to post properly. Oren, I'm glad to hear you aren't dying to Covid anytime soon, and I hope that we are all so lucky if or when we get it.
As the oracle in said campaign, a fifth player wouldn't hurt, but more importantly I think we need someone who can run the campaign for us!
I've loved playing in this game as well, and would enjoy seeing it to the end! Shall we look for a new GM? Rocco, what are you feeling about this?
Elurius takes on the form of a cleaning halfling and sneaks into the building, keeping an eye on the alcove and on the people in and around the building.
However the very act of cleaning disgusts the woman so much she gets distracted by it more than half the time.
Elurius blinks and changes into a nondescript shift of a halfling, a sleeve tugging later and she's dressed in the ragged clothes of a temple slave. ♫"I could act like I'm coming into to give the items a cleaning, if it pleases the priest. Act like I'm mute to try covering my prodigious musical talents. I could scout out the route and if there are any devils on guard so Rocco can then sneak in under invisibility and steal them... If we want them that is."♫ Elurius then turns to Lirotha. ♫"As for the Silver Council... I'm thinking it would be great to get a group of people who can mobilize the general populace. Not recruit people to our ranks specifically, but allow community leaders and the Ravens to collaborate on things. If we are to truly take Thrune out of power here, we are also liable to cause massive upheavals and overturn many civil structures and works. The council could allow us to quickly fill in those gaps and allow a smoother transition. For example, the other day when we took down the guard house, with the council we could try working an arrangement with the leaders to have a group of people who could act as guards or police set to take over quickly versus letting the area go with out some protection until either Thrune or we have a chance to replace them."♫
Elurius picks up the scrolls, reads over them and adds them to her scroll case, before finishing her tea and giving a proper noble woman's curtsy to Ms. Docur and leaving with the rest of the group. She looks over at Oren and Rocco as they talk about disguises ND sneaking into places. With a snap of her fingers she turns into a halfling man with a big bushy beard and a hard look. In a much lower voice the halfling sings out, ♫"Sneaking into a place without me? I think of the group I'd have the best chance of never being recognized! And seeing as I can disappear from sight for a good amount of time in a flash as well, it'd be a mistake to leave me behind."♫
The halfling server comes back to the table with the orders and a steaming cup of tea, he pulls up a seat and plops down into it and makes a small exclamation of surprise over something across the room. Next moment there's Elurius sitting in the seat, tugging on her sleeves as she adjusts them to sit right. She picks up the tea cup and takes a sip, gesturing for the Lady to continue.
Her eyes do light up at the mention of the Grey Spiders. ♫"We were only tracking them down for something... exact details slip my mind, but I can assure you we are not going to be basing anything off of their reprehensible organization."♫ Seh sets down the cup and focuses further on the woman, ♫"As for keeping the nobles on our side, that would be a great idea personally. There is a lot of money and political power in those houses, power that extends beyond Kintargo's borders and would add some legitimacy to our endeavor. We would hate to follow in the footsteps of Galt."♫ She turns and addresses Rocco, ♫"Given that he was appointed by the damned House of Thrune, few would be willing to oppose it. Add in the 'subtle' message behind the Night of Ashes, especially with the burning of the Victacora house, and it's a wonder that the nobles aren't singing his praises in public, at least. And we shouldn't be turning away potential allies, especially wealthy allies."♫
A halfling in a teahouse employee outfit sneaks up to the table as Lirotha plies her trade and seems clearly interested in the fortune telling. He watches with interest, but clearly shows off Elurius's stylized silver raven embroidered over the breast of the uniform. He watches for a moment and then asks, in a sing-song, nearly full on song, voice, ♫"Is there anything I can get you two? Also I would assume you will have more company soon, let me get some waters for them."♫
Question, until level 7 Elurius had a revelation that acted like Disguise self and gave a +10 bonus to disguise. But now she physically changes and it acts like Alter Self. Does she still get a bonus for disguise, is it her flat modifier, or does she not need to roll (except maybe to disguise her voice)?
Elurius comes downstairs, her hair having been done up and in a beautifully radiant silver bun. She pours herself a cup of coffee and looks at everyone else gathered around, discussing something. ♫"I miss something?"♫ She listens to the explanations again and then adds, ♫"WE should probably look at meeting with the woman then. Perhaps discuss what a 'Silver Council' would entail. Is it an alternative form of leadership for the city or something that controls the Silver Ravens? A group to organize and mobilize the forces of the Ravens or an information dispersal group? We would definitely have to define those before setting up the Council."♫
Elurius Level 7 advancement: Oracle:
New spells known:
Woots beneficial hit dies!
I don't... I think it was done in a full at first and then average+con mod for the rest. Or at least that's how I was able to reverse calculate my hitpoints.
Yaaay! I'm super glad to hear this can continue! Whoot! Now the question is, Val are you still wanting to pump the breaks with this game? And with Talon missing for well over a year at this point do we want to try getting someone else to fill the opening? Also Elurius is picking up another revelation via feat, but I'm unsure whether to grab one that grants a continuous misdirection effect or a once per day 10 ft/level teleport effect.
Ugh, it's a complicated and sometimes frustrating subsystem that I feel the only direct impact on PCs would be to gather information or help in missions that went south, but we seem to be a pretty cautious group and know when to retreat and how to prepare for things, so the second part is harder to utilize. So personally, cutting it is fine!
Did we dodge a bullet there? I hope it wasn't too much of an issue. Anyways, and I'm lathe to bring it up, GM you mentioned you might only get us through book 2. How are you feeling about book 3?
Okay let's get this train moving again. So GM what is there still left for us to do? I know there's the aboleth (forgetting the right name right now), but is that it for this book?
Elurius wakes up the next morning, a 1000 gp less, and streches. She then heads downstairs from the coffee house bedrooms into he hidden rooms below to see how the move to the new location is going. She then gathers up the rest of he leaders and sits them down with a cup of Laria's specialty. ♫"So what are we doing today? Do we want to try tackling that thingy bother Lirotha and my cousins? Try see what happened at that event? Dance to the music of our hearts? Wait on things to blow over?"♫
Hey! How'd you get those musical notes to show up? That's really cool! On a different note, you can always then add them to your tag line for easier copy and paste usage!
Phase 1:
Phase 2:
Phase 3:
Oh, my! I'm so sorry to hear that! Don't worry about updating the game, I can handle that, and good luck with finding a new job soon. It sucks that this virus has been so economically disruptive!
Hrmm, should I get the rolls done? Or are you still wanting to do them Lirotha?
Let's get to draining the underwater place! Then mayhaps the aboleths?
Elurius watches as the many guards come flailing out of the building. Seeing one final guard exit, she takes a moment to check noone else is watching before slipping behind a corner and disappearing. She keeps her half orc guise under the invisibility and moves up behind half-dressed-and-half-cocked, giving a loud and as low and rumbly as possible, She then starts to cast a spell, her invisibility dropping showing a hulking half-orc who commands, with a magic force behind their words, ♫"Now Run!"♫ She then contemplates turning invisible depending on how far the man might get or how he reacts.
Elurius keeps her dour half-orc laborer persona in place and not seeming to be interested in the commotion going on. She does keep a tabs on what the guards are doing, ready to make things interesting if need be.
Elurius takes on the apperance of a burly half-orc man in some downtrodden clothes and with slumped shoulders as her 'mask' and tries to look completely uninterested in anything as she watches the front doors or the place, ready to cause shenanigans when things really get going.
Elurius can stay invisible around the building and cast create water on any places or people who look like they are potentially burning. If there seems to be some resistance to that she could also start spamming Command or Shamefully Overdressed. She will try healing as many people as she can to keep them alive, but might also want to start throwing in a command to flee the next turn with an intimidate to boot.
♫"Told ya earlier, I ain't givin' ya day old bread and I ain't baked any for today yet. But tell ya what I'll being a few loaves by later today and you can try them with dinner, for free. But you'll find you probably want to pay me for my fabulous loaves anyways! That work for ya?"♫ As soon as the man is out of her hair, Elurius slips into a different alley way tugging at her sleeves and whistling at small tune turning into a tall, burly half-orc and sauntering back to the Longroads coffee house. ♫"May have found a good place to be striking..."♫
Elurius gives a small smile as the spell seems to take ahold of the man. She holds out a small letter, handed to the man ♫"Can you be a dear and read this aloud to everyone at the event today?"♫ The letter: Dearest Brazalli Thrune, Thank you for throwing what I am sure is a thrilling event. Sadly, I have to inform you that we could not attend. We appreciate the peaceful attempt at bringing our group's activities to a conclusion. Sadly, we are not people to be openly trusting and have hundreds of things to be doing to accomplish our goals. Additionally you should know, we are not going to settle for a few peace talks and lifting of some restrictions, too much has happened, from the Night of Ashes to all your commandments. This cannot continue, even if you abdicate control, this could readily happen again. Kintargo needs to be freed of your control, and until it has it's own ability to forge it's path we will continue our activities. Please enjoy the rest of your time in our lovely city. It has sadly seen better days, as it seems to be in a chaotic tyrannical mess right now, the famous operas shut down, soldiers from out of the city harassing the citizens in it, religious fanatics using their power to beat down other groups, and citizen groups roaming the streets and harming anyone they find 'seditionistic' even if there's no evidence. We are ashamed you have to see it like this, and hope to clear these issues up, but sadly I think such a day and you being here would be mutually exclusive. Anyways please enjoy your leisurely indulgences. We'll be staying busy rebuilding the city. With the best of wishes for our lovely city,
P.S. Please don't hurt the guard. He doesn't know exactly what he is doing, and you'd be killing a loyal man to you.
Okay, not trapping them in is good enough for me! Cause otherwise we'd be pretty to close to straight up murdering them... As for improvements, Elurius could take up a spot slightly out of the way and try casting spells that might further embarrass any people who try running away (shamefully overdressed, command, burning disarm, suggestion, hideous laughter).
Or they could be combined! for the Muahahahaha! Hrmm. I might be able to use a few scrolls of summon monster under the guise of invisibility, if we want to have attacks from multiple points simultaneously. As for trying to keep people in the building, Elurius could ensure that anyone who can get out of the building gets commanded to go back in or force them to drop their weapons. I might also, finally, be able to use shamefully overdressed on someone! Might I ask, for the sake of keeping Elurius' conscious clear, that we give them a warning and a chance to surrender and be escorted from the city before we completely slaughter them?
Under the disguise of a dwarven baker, whose sing-songy voice is almost a song in and of itself, Elurius spends the next morning going around the barracks trying to sell bread, and surreptitiously asking about whether she can bring the orders by later. She also keeps an eye open for a solider on his or her own that she might talk to without being noticed.
Hrmm, can I still try suggestioning someone? Under disguise, of course, and not taking them back to any place critical. On the off chance that Thrune hasn't prepared for this extensively, and giving him a letter that would probably end up in his hands even if the spell and man is discovered. Otherwise striking at the barracks sounds fine! Oh, and Lirotha, I think you're the de facto party leader! :D I have no out of character objections at least (though Elurius doesn't quite trust her).
And I'm still for kidnapping a soilder or Thrune lackey and using him to fulfill a Suggestion that he deliver a message for us. If Thrune attacks the man he'd be hurting his own position whereas he could readily catch and torture the silver Val-raven-i. Did this group get silver raven figurines? Cause you could use them instead of sending a core leader and risking them (and splitting the party!)
Barracks is my first choice as well. And then Church and finally the Citizen's Group. The barracks would help weaken military strength and is the least likely to backfire on us. The church is problematic and could probably do with being handled, but also has potential for risks and problems The citizen group would potentially be a PR nightmare!
Elurius stops to think of things she might remember about the city... And the comes up with something. ♫"I remember hearing about this High Priest Corinstian Grivenner who works hand in hand with Thrune. He tries to aid in keeping the “peace” in the city. But several members of his church regularly go out and attempt to round up or beat down other religious orders to keep them from organizing, for example the local Shelyn worshiping painting guild got attacked a few weeks ago. Shutting down one of the bases for these wandering bands of Asmodeans will likely focus more negative attention on Thrune himself."♫
♫"Well, why don't we send a representative in our place instead? We could readily kidnap a soilder or two and give them a suggestion that they should deliver a message for us? While at the same time making a public display of a barracks? If we can get the timing right we could give Thrune and everyone watching information about what we just did to barracks Alpha-Alpaca or whatever. Give the people a very public symbol, undermines what ever Thrune is planning with the meeting, and undermines the power all at the same time, without putting who we are on display!"♫
Elurius pauses at Lirotha's words. ♫"Right, now that is a good idea! I hadn't thought about hostages, and if we were obviously somewhere else, if Thrune takes hostages it won't hurt our reputation while dragging his into the mud even further.... Now would it be greedy of me to suggest we prank a few barracks instead of just one?"♫
Elurius stops and pauses to think. ♫"I like the idea of pranking. But let's prank the event! Show that we heard the call but we aren't going to do what Thrune asks us to. Better than hurting the possibly innocent guards and risking loosing support from family and friends of the guards."♫
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